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Originally Posted by DerAlte  Correct, @B&T, but instinctively this didn't look right.
Because (I am quoting without actual measurement, apologies!) mounted on the ORVM panel, 45 degrees from that point would be somewhere near the gear stick or thereabouts. The left tweeter would be OK, but for the right tweeter the listener would be quite "behind" the 45 degrees line.
That just *may* affect. But then, since the sound stage is much more than the axis orientation of the drivers (what with all reflections and interference intersections) it would not be comparable with, say, the swivel pod ORVM panel tweeter mounting in the Safari EX. (All the drivers are tilted slightly towards the rear in Safari. The mid-bass drivers in the door are also tilted towards the ceiling) |
True, it would seem that way, but it doesnt matter. So long as the off axis response of the tweeter closely mirrors the on axis response, but at a lower output level. Reflections et al, are surely a whole different thing, the reason why I dont like tweeters placed in the crevice formed by the dash and the front windshield.
In our Wagon R we had a 6.5" Illusion component set installed, and one fine day, we decided to change it to a coaxial from the same range. Since the tweeter and crossover were installed on the door pad, we let them be, and just changed the 6.5" driver to the 6.5" coax model. The crossover and tweeter were of course bypassed, but still in place. One of our audio gurus happened to drop by that day for a listening, and he quite appreciated the elevated and well laid out front soundstage the system was producing. I'm citing this example, since in this case, the tweeters are installed at the bottom of the doors in rings after cutting out a part of the door pocket. Thus, the nearer tweeter is nearly 75 degrees off axis to the listener. When I told the guru that it was just a coaxial set and the component tweeters installed higher up in the door pads are just dummies, he could hardly believe it. He thought I was pulling off a major con job on him.
